(COMHAD) Specialist Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the NHS is looking for a dedicated Specialist Practitioner to join their Complex Emotional Needs Service. This exciting role involves providing specialist substance misuse and mental health interventions, ensuring that all clients, regardless of their substance use, receive the necessary support. The Practitioner will work both autonomously and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, promoting innovative and flexible approaches to care. If you are passionate about improving lives and making a difference in mental health services, this position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a vital area of healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing substance misuse and mental health interventions.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with various partners.

Responsibilities

• Champion parity of service access for substance users within mental health services.
• Provide consultations and assessments, both individually and in groups.

Skills

Substance Misuse Interventions

Mental Health Assessment

Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork

Group-Based Interventions

Working with Personality Disorder

Education

Appropriate UK Professional Registration

Job description

The COMHAD Specialist Practitioner post is an exciting new role designed to provide specialist substance misuse and mental health interventions within the Complex Emotional Needs Service. The post holder will offer specialist consultation, assessment and provide both individualized and group-based short-term interventions, working autonomously and collaboratively with substance partners and other mental health services to ensure that clients using or impacted by substance use receive appropriate support and treatment. The role requires the Practitioner to engage in a high level of Multi-Disciplinary work, supporting and developing the skills and knowledge base of colleagues across the CEN and the ADAPT Teams in Greenwich, Bromley & Bexley and promoting COMHAD interventions in a flexible and creative manner.

Main duties of the job

The role requires the Practitioner to champion parity of service access, and to ensure that service users who may be using substances are able to access the same level of mental health services as those who are not, promoting the core overarching COMHAD concepts of there being ‘no wrong door’ and that substance misuse is ‘everybody’s business’.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role requires the Practitioner to champion parity of service access, and to ensure that service users who may be using substances are able to access the same level of mental health services as those who are not, promoting the core overarching COMHAD concepts of there being ‘no wrong door’ and that substance misuse is ‘everybody’s business’.

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.

Person specification

Experience of providing group interventions

• Providing group-based interventions (COMHAD)

Personality Disorder

• Experience of working with Personality Disorder

MDT

• Working as part of an MDT

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.